Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Of Bidens and Bikers: Does Anybody Remember Derek Hale?

A fragment of folk wisdom dubiously attributed to Bismack informs
us that God watches out for “fools, small children, and the United States of
America.” During a campaign stop in Seaman, Ohio, Joe Biden’s proprietary blend
of foolishness and childishness may have proven fatal were it not for the
intervention of Providence – or, at least, the close supervision of the Secret
Service.

Biden inflicted himself on customers enjoying an otherwise pleasant Sunday meal at
Cruiser’s Diner. Acting on the familiar and entirely unwarranted assumption
that Mundanes delight in being pestered by their tax-engorged overseers, Biden
struck up a conversation with a group of bikers “in black leather vests and
bandanas,” as
Politico recounts the event.

Spying a female member of the club, Biden “pulled a chair in front
of himself and pulled her nearly into his lap,” continues the report. “He put
his hands on her shoulders and leaned in for a conversation as photographers
snapped away.”

Biden apparently thought that his behavior was puckishly charming,
and the assembled media lickspittles did nothing to dispel that delusion. One
needn’t have a Betazoid’s
empathic gifts to recognize that the two male bikers who flanked Biden were neither
flattered by Biden’s presence, nor amused by the adolescent attentions he had
forced on their female companion. After all, this was a brazen violation of the second rule of biker etiquette
(the relevant section of which could be paraphrased as “Keep your hands off of
`our’ women”).

Biden’s strained attempt at a mock-populist photo-op occurred during
the same news cycle in which the Dear Leader himself took part in a staged bearhug in a pizza joint in Florida. I find myself wondering how Biden’s
campaign appearance may have turned out if the circumstances had been altered
slightly – if, for instance, his son Beau Biden had decided to make a similar overture
to a group of bikers. Had this happened, there is a small but tantalizing
possibility that Biden the Younger may have been taught the kind of painful
lesson from which fools often receive necessary instruction.

Derek
Hale, an Iraq combat veteran, joined an “outlaw motorcycle club” (OMC) called the
Pagans shortly after being discharged from the Marine Corps for medical
reasons. In November 2006 he was making a run from his home in Virginia to
Wilmington as part of a “Toys for Tots” promotion. He was unaware of the fact
that about a year earlier the Delaware State Police had opened an investigation
into several members of the Pagans OMC.

Derek Hale with Taylor (l.) and Garrett.

Derek was
not the subject of the investigation. He had no criminal record, and there were
no warrants out for his arrest on the day he was murdered.

On November
6, 2006, Derek was house-sitting for a friend, who had broken up with his wife
and was moving to a new apartment. Sandra Lopez, the soon-to-be ex-wife of
Derek's friend, arrived with an 11-year-old son and a 6-year-old daughter early
in the afternoon to remove some personal belongings.

Derek -- wearing a hooded
sweatshirt -- was sitting quietly on the front porch of the home when an
unmarked police car and a blacked-out SUV arrived at around 4:00 PM and decanted
a thugscrum of 8-14 heavily armed police. According to a half-dozen eyewitnesses, the officers were dressed in black,
and displayed no police insignia of any kind.

Derek
stood as the police surrounded the porch. Within a few seconds, he was hit with
the first of what would be seven Taser blasts during a space of 73 seconds.
According to eyewitnesses – one of whom, Howard Mixon, was threatened by the
officers when he pointed out that Derek was helpless and unresisting – Hale’s last
words were a plea for the police to get the children to safety. Witnesses also
described how Derek, who was paralyzed from the Taser assault and left
wallowing in a puddle of vomit, repeatedly attempted to comply with demands to
remove his hands from his pockets.

He was actually Tasered seven times. (Click to enlarge.)

Derek was
prone, unarmed, and helpless when Lt. William Brown of the Wilmington Police
Department murdered him by shooting him three times at point-blank range.

The
official report commissioned and signed by Beau Biden dismisses eyewitness
accounts, retailing as irreproachable truth the self-serving version of the
incident provided by the death squad that murdered Derek Hale.

Biden’s
report asserted that the Taser barrage was necessary “to overcome Derek Hale’s
resistance to the arrest so he could be taken into custody without injury to
himself or to the officers.” The arrest was unlawful, and Derek Hale offered no
resistance – apart from his inability to comply because of the Taser attack
itself.

The
document also claims that Hale “continued to keep his hand in his pocket as if
holding a weapon and turning in a threatening manner toward a nearby officer
armed with an empty Taser.” According to the description provided by disinterested
observers, Derek was thrown to his side by a Taser strike, and was too busy
vomiting into a flower bed to “threaten” any of the people who had just
attacked him.

Derek was
within easy reach of his armed assailants. But taking a hands-on approach might
have involved a risk to “officer safety” – one that was both infinitesimal and,
to the valiant badasses of the Wilmington PD, entirely unacceptable. So for the
benefit of Beau Biden and the other authors of the official report the officers
confected a story worthy of a Marvel comic book in which Derek ripped the barbs
from his clothes and stood up in a “threatening” manner.

Because
of this “menacing” behavior, insists the Biden Report, the Taser-wielding
officer nearest to the victim “believed he was in immediate danger and, thus,
began an evasive move. Lt. Brown believed that the use of deadly force was
immediately necessary to prevent serious injury or death to that officer.” A
second officer was preparing to gun down Derek when Brown shot the
victim.

Elaine Hale at her murdered husband's funeral.

The police had the advantage of numbers and firepower. Their
subject had been under surveillance for days; he was clearly not a threat. He
had been Tasered seven times when Lt. Brown pulled the trigger.
According to Beau Biden, this was entirely justified because of fears on the
part of the assailants that Derek – who was in convulsions – had not been
rendered entirely immobile.
Attorney Thomas Neuberger, who represented Derek's widow Elaine
in a lawsuit filed against her husband's murderers, described Biden’s report as
“a shameless cover-up because the use of deadly force was not justified. Fourteen
heavily armed and trained police officers should be able to arrest a citizen
without killing him after they have Tasered him seven times and he is lying in
a pool of his own vomit."

Shortly
after he filed the lawsuit on behalf of Derek’s widow and stepchildren, Neuberger
told me that when Thomas MacLeish became commander of the Delaware
State Police in 2005, his most urgent priority was to improve the public image
of his scandal-plagued agency.

“Over the
past several years, we've represented a lot of police officers, including some
from SWAT teams, so it's not as if we're anti-police, even though we consider
the State Police [DSP] hierarchy to be corrupt," Neuberger told me in
early 2007."We've gone to court on
behalf of whistleblowers and officers who have filed civil rights complaints of
various kinds. Of the ten lawsuits we've filed, we've either won or
successfully settled nine of them. Most of the cases have involved the Delaware
State Police, and the DSP's hierarchy has received a lot of negative publicity.
I suspect that might be what's behind the raid in which Derek was killed.”

Clearly,
the DSP wanted to find a suitable “threat” – preferably one that was telegenic
without posing significant risks to “officer safety” – to cast as an antagonist
in a high-profile PR campaign. The Pagans were a perfect fit. The Feds cut
themselves in for a piece of the action, and a joint “task force” was created
to target the Pagans.

Immediately
after the shooting, the DSP contacted the Virginia State Police and -- in a
deliberate act of official perjury -- told them that Derek was a suspect in a
narcotics investigation. Police from Delaware and Virginia barged into the Hale
family's Manassas home, shoving aside a grieving wife and two devastated children
in order to carry out a charade of a search in the service of an official
fiction.

Not
content to murder Derek and terrorize his already traumatized family, the
people who orchestrated that charade defiled the victim’s memory. On November
21, 2006, the DSP issued a press release that was a Soviet-grade specimen of
official mendacity. The State Police claimed that Derek “was at the center of a
long term narcotics trafficking investigation” and that his death was a
justifiable use of force because he had “resisted arrest.”

By exonerating the
police who murdered Derek Hale – including William Brown, who actually pulled
the trigger – Beau Biden conferred his imprimatur on the post-mortem assassination
of the victim’s character. He also disposed of the matter before a suitable
answer was found to the most important question: Why was a paramilitary strike team sent to
arrest him? The most reasonable explanation is that the federally supervised
task force wanted to intimidate him into becoming an informant.

While
being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars as an undercover Fed, Howerton – a
convicted murderer became the club’s sergeant-at-arms.

In 2009, the Feds
breathlessly announced that they had compiled a massive indictment against the
Pagans as an interstate criminal conspiracy– only to see that document deflate
into a small number of relatively trivial charges against specific members of
the club. The “criminal enterprise” claim boiled down to the accusation that
the Pagans had committed a federal offense by running a raffle. The
City of Wilmington paid a $975,000 settlement to Derek’s family in December
2010, avoiding a civil trial scheduled for the following July.

The biker milieu isn’t
to everybody’s taste. Like every other private association, biker clubs do
occasionally attract people inclined toward violent crime. Clear-eyed social
observers would conclude that innocent people are far safer in the company of
bikers – including members of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs – than in the company of
police.

Trite and pointless as the operation proved to be, it did give Queen
an opportunity to strut and preen about his supposed accomplishments.

“While
they are wearing that patch, they are untouchable to the world at large,” wrote
Queen of the Mongols in his memoir, Under and Alone. “No one can make trouble for them without bringing down the fury
of the whole Mongol Nation.”

As
Queen conceded, that description applies much better to the violent, lawless
brotherhood that employs him: “Living
full-time as an outlaw gave me a perspective few law-enforcement officers ever
get to experience. I was often more at risk from my supposed brothers in blue
than from my adopted brothers in the gang.”

By
covering up the murder of Derek Hale, Beau Biden performed an indispensable
service on behalf of the people to whom Queen refers as “outlaws with badges.”

Biden
the Younger is now serving as the Obama Campaign’s semi-official emissary to
military veterans, some of whom might want to confront him about traducing the
memory of Derek Hale, an honorably discharged Marine combat veteran.

The action of the DSP, in that they concocted some excuse and made a very visible "assault" in order to polish up their image, reminds me about the excuses that led up to the Waco tragedy. There again they were looking to make a splash that would keep the funds flowing.

Derek Hale was my friend. His wife and two step children were my friends. I was a member of the Northern Virginia Pagan's MC. I helped in the prospecting and patching of Derek Hale into the Pagan's MC. (More Coming). On the eve of Derek's murder by Sgt Bobby Brown of the Wilmington City Police, I was called by my chapter president to go to Derek's new Town House in Manassas to be near his wife, because "something awful has happened in Delaware". When I arrived there at the Hale family home, the street was filled with unmarked State Police and PW County Police cars, and the house was being ransacked. Even though Derek had been murdered by police in Wilmington, the VA State Police were already destroying his town house, gathering "evidence" that would comply with the Delaware Atty General ; "Beau Biden's" justification for murdering Derek. I was ashamed to be an American that day. After 14 officers tazered and amped Derek some 7 times, until he was vomiting on the front steps of the house he had been watching for a fellow Pagan....Officer Bobby Brown approached Derek, and did not hand cuff him. He did not subdue him and arrest him. Officer Bobby Brown approached Derek and took aim with his Glock .40 and fired 3 rounds into Derek's chest. (Derek, a decorated Marine from Iraq and Afghanistan...and un-armed) was murdered by Bobby Brown. And in the coming months, Atty General Beau Biden exhonorated all the officers involved in this murder of Derek Hale. So FUCK BEAU BIDEN...AND FUCK HIS FATHER JOE BIDEN...AND FUCK HIS COCAINE ADDICTED DELAWARE CABAL FAMILY OF CRIMINALS. Tell Joe that "Beau's last request for him to run for President.........." Will be met by the friends of Derek Hale! Cock Sucker!